Each New Year's Day, Honolulu officials publish a list of fireworks casualties from the night before, typically a litany of burns, shrapnel wounds or amputations. Sometimes there are deaths.

A New Year’s Eve firework display in a Hawaii neighborhood quickly went wrong after three people were killed and 20 injured Tuesday night. When fireworks were lit in a neighborhood in ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai ...

The New Year is to see Japan well on the road to a new-born prosperity, with the Yen nearer its normal rate of exchange, a renaissance of industry and foreign trade and a restored confidence in ...

HawaiiNewsNow At least four people have died and around 20 others were injured when illegal fireworks blew up in a house in Hawaii almost exactly as the clock struck midnight for New Year’s Day.

Millions of Japanese people will return to their home towns to be with their families, visit neighborhood shrines on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, and watch the New Year TV program "Kohaku Uta ...

Australia welcomed the new year with a 12-minute fireworks show featuring ... Festivities also lit up East Asian countries including Japan, China, and the Philippines, where people in the capital ...

During oshogatsu (Japanese New Year), people in Japan huddle outside of temples and shrines to pray for an auspicious year, hands warmed by steaming cups of amazake (fermented rice drink).

will usher in the “Year of the Snake” with its 31st annual Japanese New Year Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, at the Wright Place in downtown Pensacola. Festivities will take place from ...

Hawaii’s first baby of 2025 was born at Adventist ... Medical Center iannounced the birth of its first babies of the new year, Thaddeus and Alvena Esene. Proud parents, Athena and Tagiilima ...